...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.